Low Pass Filter (LPF) and High Pass Filters (HPF) are very useful tools to create clean mix with good separation.

First check out the video to understand what we are talking about here. You watched the video? Good, let me tell you a game chancing tip I learned from Friedemann Tischmeyer:

"A good mix requires at least the same number of low-cut filters as there are tracks"Now what does the mean and how you should do it:- as default put 30Hz High Pass Filter on EVERY SINGLE TRACK on your DAW. - when you start mixing, listen every track one by one in SOLO mode to adjust Hz.- slowly start raise towards to higher frequencies. - When start to hear the cutting CLEARLY, stop and back off a little bit.- repeat to EVERY TRACK and you are step closer to clean and professional mix.

I like Ola Englund's way to make very informative, yet highly entertaining tutorial videos.

Check out the video first and then you can try my very similar approach:- record bass just like you learned from the video- duplicate track- on first track high pass (HPF) from 30-50Hz and low pass (LPF) at 400Hz- on second track put up your favorite distortion and HP at 400Hz- blend tracks to sit on your mix, create new group track (GT) and send both bass tracks to it. Name it BASS.- on your bass GT boost 1-3 db around 1300-1500Hz. On your rhythm guitar GT cut same amount at the same Hz.- LP your bass GT between 7000-10 000Hz and add compressor as you learned from the video.- save all channels as track presets on your DAW and you have out-of-the-box album quality bass sound.

You will also need impulses loader. My recommendation is LeCab2. It's the one I have used on my demo recordings.

Side note for MAC users:Tse x30 is not available for MAC at this point. You can try LePou amp simulators instead. They are the only FREE amp sims I personally use.

Suggestion how to use these impulses:- Record 2 rhythm guitar tracks. Pan hard left (100%) and hard right (100%) - Try to mix and match different impulses. Put Metallica (or what ever) on your left guitar track and another random impulse to right guitar track. You can easily change and browse impulses on LeCab2.

With this blog I want to share with you the secrets of Metal Production. I will post carefully selected video tutorials,links to best free VST-plugins and other useful stuff to improve your own recordings.

I will also try my best to answer questions related to the topics or at least direct you to the correct sources.

I have plans to make my own video tutorials to give you inside information how I engineer SickTwins Production releases. I will share all the knowledge I have learned in the past 15 years.

Here is the 20 hot metal production tips from MusicRadar I agree with.If you want have a tutorial for a certain subject,feel free to suggest.